In the Astrakhan region farmers collected a record 23.2 thousand tons of rice
A breakthrough in crop production was recorded in the village of Salt Lodge of the Chernoyarsk district.
Agrarians of the Astrakhan region summed up the harvesting campaign as part of the large-scale investment project “Astrakhan rice system”, which is implemented by one of the companies in the region. This season, rice fields with an area of 4.6 thousand hectares yielded 23.2 thousand tons – an indicator that experts call more than worthy for a region with difficult climatic conditions.
The key to this result was a serious technical re-equipment. Agrarians modernized irrigation systems on an area of almost 9 thousand hectares, and the cleaning itself provided about 50 units of modern equipment. Part of the harvested grain has already been sent for processing to the local plant "Astrakhan rice", and part - to the enterprises of the Krasnodar Territory and the Rostov region, which indicates the high quality of the Astrakhan product.
The project, designed until 2038, already brings tangible economic returns to the region. Total investments are estimated at 16.9 billion rubles, of which 3.6 billion have already been invested in the development of production.
280 new jobs were created on the developed 23.7 thousand hectares, and tax payments to the regional budget exceeded 82 million rubles.
In the future, it is planned to introduce another 31 thousand hectares of reclaimed land into agricultural turnover, more than 20 thousand hectares will be allocated for rice with a crop target of 120 thousand tons. And in 2028, the construction of its own rice processing plant will start in the region, which will allow Astrakhan producers to completely close the cycle - from the field to finished cereals on store shelves.
Read about the events in the Astrakhan and Volgograd regions in the paper number "MK in Volgograd".
